Reposting this piece I wrote for CrimeReads in honor of Elizabeth Bowen's birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday, EB! crimereads.com/elizabeth-bo...
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How Elizabeth Bowen’s Big Houses Laid the Groundwork for Irish Domestic Noir
“After the Bentley murder, Rose Hill stood empty two years.” I read the first line of the great Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen’s 1934 short story The Cat Jumps late one January night almost exactly s…